Over the next few days Noah and Lucy spent a lot of time together, talking and basically scheming. She felt a little bad leaving Veronika hanging so often, but she had to make this deal work with Noah. The adventure to the blood bar was coming up, and that would be Lucy’s first chance to persuade Veronika to give Noah the time of day.

“So what do you think? Do you think she’d go for it?” he whispered to her in class. Lucy sighed.

“I don’t know. She’s ...